The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-11-10
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches,
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON.
GENERAL DUANE, chief Of engineers, in q
report on the 31st ult to the Secretary oi
War points to the necessity of improve
ments In our sea-coast and lake-front de-
fenses. and estimates that It will require
$5, ,234 900 to put them in proper condi-
ton.
On the 31st ult. the visible supply of
wheat and corn in the country was respect
lively, 33. 033, 4O7 and $50. 733 bushels
Since last report wheat increased ,276, $40
bushels and corn increased 235, 1865 bushels.
THE President on the 31st nit received
the peace commissioners from Great Brit
ain, who desire his cooperation in securing
. treaty between that country and the
United States which shall provide for the
amicable settlement Of disputes by arbi-
trationL
The Government receipts for October
amounted to $31 500, 172 and the exlen-
ditures to S12. .474, ,852. being an excess oi
receipts Of 81 9, ,32S. $50
THE public debt statement for October II
as follows: Total debt {ncludIng interest
81 ,675, 5,O76,715; less cash items available
for reduction Of debt and reserve bills fol
redemption Of United States notes 1919.
625. .3O6). 81 ,295, ,451, 4O6; cash in treasury,
$56, 76S, 7O4; debt. less amount in treasury,
81. 23S .692. 7O1. Decrease during October,
Sic, 833, ,695
It was decided by the first Comptroller Of
the Treasury on the 1st that clerks in the
first and second class post-oflces were moi
entitled to extra compensation for deliver
ing special letters He held thai
such extra compensation could only be paid
In third and fourth-class Offices
The United States Supreme Court decision
upon the petition for writ of error in the
c4se of the Chicago Anarchists was an
nounced on the forenoon of the I'd by
Chief Justice Waite in long and carefully.
prepared opinion which occupied thirty.
i've minutes in the reading, and which
closed as follows: I'VE are OF the opinion
that no Federal question has been presented
warranting the interference Of this court
and therefore we deny the writ" An ap
peal to Governor Oglesby Is the only 70
course now left to the condemned men,
In his annual report received on the 2t
the Commissioner Of Indian Aft irs note,
substantial evidence Of continued progress
tion.
The Commissioner Of Customs in his an.
nual report, submitted to the Secretary ol
the Treasury on the Sd, shows that during
the last fiscal year accounts were examined
in his Office involving $21s,619. .391 in re.
ceipts and $23, 706 782 in disbursements
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has appointed Ed
ward c. Weilep, of Kansas, to be United
States Consul ut Bonneberg, Germany.
A BOX containing . contrivance resem.
bling an Internal machine was received
through the post-office by Chief-Justict
Waite at his home in Washington on the 81
but the breaking of wire by the post-ofics
clerk IN stamping the box rendered the ap
paratus harmless The circumstance natu.
rally connects itself with the Justices de.
livery OF the opinion Of the Supreme Cour1
In the case OF the Anarchists, and the gen.
eral opinion was that friends of the con.
demned men intended to take the life Of the
Chief Justice